C.C. Meets Kurumi Tokisaki

C.C. kicked Akasaka off the bed.

Akasaka rubbed his kicked waist, grimacing in pain, nearly unable to get back up.

C.C. hugged a pillow on the bed, her long, straight green hair slightly disheveled. She glared at Akasaka as she tried to drive him out.

Akasaka knew he had said the wrong thing. He obediently prepared to leave, but before he did, he still spoke with his back to C.C.

"Am I not the only one who knows the secret of your immortality?"

"If a lot of people know, will they come looking to cause you trouble?"

Akasaka knew that C.C.'s secret of immortality had drawn the attention of many people; it had been clear from the original story.

After all, who wouldn't be tempted by eternal life?

It was as alluring as Tang Monk's flesh.

If Akasaka wanted to take C.C. in, he had to be prepared to make enemies of those people.

Perhaps even the entire world.

That was no exaggeration at all.

He only wanted to find out who those people were, so he could be mentally prepared and make arrangements in advance.

He had no intention of abandoning C.C.

As a man, if he could not even protect his own woman, then he was no man at all.

C.C. wore an amused smile, thinking that Akasaka did not want to take responsibility. She deliberately covered her body with the blanket and asked teasingly, "What? Do you regret touching me?"

In C.C.'s eyes, Akasaka had regretted it.

But thinking about it, someone like her, who attracted trouble wherever she went, was best dealt with by simply being discarded.

Akasaka probably thought so too...

C.C. recalled what Akasaka from the seventies had said to her: [No matter when or where, as long as you ask me for help,